Jul.5 Mattia Binotto's job may be on the line after Ferrari got its 2020 campaign off to a miserable start in Austria. Sebastian Vettel failed even to make it out of Q2 at the Red Bull Ring, but engine customers Haas and Alfa Romeo also struggled badly. Indeed, compared to 2019 at the same circuit, Haas' pace has dropped by six tenths, Ferrari's by almost a second, and Alfa Romeo's by 1.1 seconds. The implication is that the engine legality scandal of 2019, leading onto Ferrari's controversially secret agreement with the FIA, has resulted in a huge performance drop for the Maranello-made power unit. "It's hard to say why, but both we and Ferrari had major problems today," said...
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